Drop obsolete info on yanking from security policy#1703
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Versions may still be yanked for security reasons under specific circumstances, but this is not the usual or most common practice in GitPython, at least currently. Recent security updates have not been accompanied by yanking older versions, and allowing these versions to be selected automatically even when not called for specifically can be good, such as to prevent an even older version with even more vulnerabilities from being selected in situations where for some reason the latest version cannot yet be used. In general, users shouldn't (and don't) assume all non-yanked versions to be free of security fixes that later versions have received. This change updates SECURITY.md to avoid giving that impression, but of course some versions of GitPython may still be yanked in the future if circumstances warrant it.
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Thanks for picking this up!
I agree that yanks are never done for security reasons, only when a release is broken unexpectedly, so this change seems appropriate.
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I agree that yanking is not generally for security. The reason I wrote the commit message as I did, avoiding saying that yanking would not ever be done for security reasons, is that I think it can reasonably be done to mitigate a supply-chain attack if a malicious typosquatted dependency is inadvertently used. I hope the commit message was okay. |
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Versions may still be yanked for security reasons under specific circumstances, but this is not the usual or most common practice in GitPython, at least currently. Recent security updates have not been accompanied by yanking older versions, and allowing these versions to be selected automatically even when not called for specifically can be good, such as to prevent an even older version with even more vulnerabilities from being selected in situations where for some reason the latest version cannot yet be used.
In general, users shouldn't (and don't) assume all non-yanked versions to be free of security fixes that later versions have received. This change updates SECURITY.md to avoid giving that impression, but of course some versions of GitPython may still be yanked in the future if circumstances warrant it.
Alternatives
You might prefer a more conservative change. For example, instead of altogether removing "are likely to be yanked," it could be changed to "may be yanked under some circumstances."
Going in the other direction, you might prefer that paragraph to be expanded to talk specifically about patch releases, and how only the latest major.minor release will be updated with a patch release.
The simple change here of removing what seems now to be the obsolete part of the description seemed like the best initial proposal, though. As usual, I am willing to make changes to this on request. (It could also of course be closed if, on balance, none of these alternatives seems better than the current wording.)